Middle Ordovician acritarchs and problematic organic-walled microfossils from the Saq-Hanadir transitional beds in the QSIM-801 well, Saudi Arabia

Le Hérissé, A.; Guidat, C.; Not, F.; Vecoli, M.; Breuer, P.; Wellman, C.H.; Steemans, Philippe

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Middle Ordovician acritarchs and problematic organic-walled microfossils from the Saq-Hanadir transitional beds in the QSIM-801 well, Saudi Arabia

Le Hérissé, A.; Guidat, C.; Not, F. et al.

2017 • In Revue de Micropaléontologie, 60, p. 289-318

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Middle Ordovician acritarchs and problematic organic-walled microfossils from the Saq-Hanadir transitional beds in the QSIM-801 well, Saudi Arabia

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